If there is one thing that gets people discouraged about Gentoo, I think it is because Gentoo has this attitude of,, "Well, if you want it done... you do it yourself." Whilst that is great when it comes to someone who has the time and wants to learn, its not convenient and it is not good for one who is trying to get things done on gentoo (rather than just play with it).

So, I'm just curious as to how you people do things to automate gentoo a little bit more. Any ideas? I guess I got to learn how to use the vixie cron thing... so far I have not found that many guides on it.

The main reason I use Gentoo is because I can do everything myself.... not have a bunch of automated garbage attempting to do things for me. I leave such things to distros such as Ubuntu and Fedora which do an excellent job of making things easy and "automated". I'm not really sure what you're interested in or referring to as far as "automated" goes though. You weren't very specific...